A fascinating account of the gradual emergence of modern cosmology and theories of the origins of the universe. Makes a great story - reading it at the same time as reading The Science Delusion by Curtis White - see my entry on that book regarding science and storytelling. It's all language after all, and words are not the thing in itself.
After having looked at White's book, I am much more aware of the arrogance, prejudices and stereotypes at play in Krauss' book - so much for the objective delusion. Rather like the Ayn Rand revealed in Part 1 of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Tenderness, these hardcore materialists with their notion of reason and objective truth are not what they seem to be, nor who they see themselves to be.
It is so easy to see, and portray this obsession with scientific truth, reason and objectivity as a new form of religion, a new all-encompassing system, a new Answer - especially when you see what a mess, what wackjobs many of the leading modern figures have been.
The ideas themselves are intriguing and entertaining.
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